Disks

End-user oriented application for viewing and modifying storage on local and removable devices.

Objectives

Goals:

• Cater to basic and intermediate use cases
• Make basic operations obvious and simple
• Basic functionality:
  • View details about internal and removable storage devices, including partitions
  • Format an entire disk (typically removable)
  • Diagnose problems, scan for errors
  • Write a disk image to a removable drive (typically to use as a live OS)
• Intermediate functionality:
  • Create and edit partition layouts, resize partitions
  • Format partitions
  • Configure what gets mounted at startup (fstab/crypttab)
• Support encryption to keep data private (e.g. LUKS or others)

Non-goals:

• Advanced / enterprise storage management (LVM, RAID)
• Every use-case under the sun. It's perfectly fine to tell advanced users to use the command-line.

Uncertain:

• Create disk image files
• Access disk image files (including ISO files)

Relevant Art

Mac

Old screenshots: 1, 2, 3.

Windows 10

Old screenshots: 1, 2.

GNOME 2

Other screenshots: 1, 2.

GParted

Discussion

Tentative Design

Jon's original mockup.

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